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Donald R. Prothero

When Humans Nearly Vanished

The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano

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The fascinating true story of the explosion of the Mount Toba supervolcano--the Earth's largest eruption in the past 28 million years--and its lasting impact on Earth and human evolutionSome 73,000 years ago, the huge dome of Mount Toba, in today's Sumatra, Indonesia, began to rumble. A deep vibration shook the entire island. Jets of steam and ash emanated from the summit, followed by an explosion louder than any sound heard by Homo sapiens since our species evolved on Earth. The eruption of the Toba supervolcano released the energy of a million tons of explosives; seven hundred cubic miles of magma spewed outward in an explosion forty times… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-58834-636-0
  • EAN: 9781588346360
  • Produktnummer: 25369226
  • Verlag: Smithsonian
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 208 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 18'922 KB
  • Abbildungen: 33 B&W IMAGES

Über den Autor


DONALD R. PROTHERO specializes in physics, planetary sciences, astronomy, earth sciences, and vertebrate paleontology. He taught for 35 years at the college level at Columbia, Knox, Pierce, and Vassar colleges, most recently as professor of geology at Occidental College and as lecturer in geobiology at the California Institute of Technology. He has authored or edited more than 300 scientific papers and 30 books, including Giants of the Lost World: Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Monsters of South America.

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